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The title changed to In the days of the [[East India Company|EIC]], it was part of the Town Major's List ([[Bengal]] & [[Bombay]]) and Effective Supernumeraries ([[Madras]]). Initially part of the [[Unattached List]] (B) in the [[Indian Army]], it became the Indian Army Ordnance (Store) Department 1887, in 1884 and was headed by the [[Commissariat General]] - Ordnance. It subsequently and then became the Indian Army Ordnance Corps, in 1922.

==FIBIS resources==*"John Braddock- Powder Master" by Sylvia Murphy ''FIBIS Journal Number 28 (Autumn 2012)'' pages 25-31. John Braddock arrived in Madras in 1813. See [[FIBIS Journals]] for details of how to access this article. ==Also see==*[[Conductors]]*[[Unattached List]]*[[Cossipore]], the location of a gun factory*[[Dum Dum]], the location of an ammunition factory*[[Ishapore]], the location of a gunpowder factory, and later a rifle factory ==History of the Ordnance artificersDepartment==In 1775 the [[East India Company]] established the [[Ordnance Department|'Board of Ordnance']] at [[Fort William]], in Calcutta. In 1787 a gunpowder factory was established at Ishapore which started production in 1791. In 1801 a 'Gun Carriage Agency' was set up at Cossipore that started production in 1802. In 1906 the administration of Indian Ordnance factories came under the 'Inspector General of Ordnance Factories'. This changed again in 1936 to the 'Director of Ordnance Factories <ref name =IA15>“Industrial Railways and Locomotives of India and South Asia” compiled by Simon Darvill. Published by ‘The Industrial Railway Society’ 2013. ISBN 978 1 901556 82-7. Available at http://irsshop.co.uk/India. Reference: Entry IA15 page ....</ref>. The following Ordnance Factories have been identified as having railways ''(see separate pages for more information)'':- *[[Cossipore, Gun and Shell Factory Railway|Cossipore, Gun and Shell Factory]]*[[Calcutta, Dum Dum Gun Carriage Factory Railway|Calcutta, Dum Dum Gun Carriage Factory]] *[[Cawnpore, Field Gun Factory Railway|Cawnpore, Field Gun Factory]]*[[Jubbulpore Gun Carriage Factory Monorail|Jubblepore, Gun Carriage Factory]] Also the following Arsenals and Ordinance Depots:-*[[Quetta Arsenal Light Railway|Quetta Arsenal]]*[[Chheoki, Central Ordnance Depot Railway|Chheoki, Central Ordinance Depot]] ==Small Arms==Small Arms were procured in Britain by the East India List Company which included "Company's Pattern" pieces<ref>[http://archiverwww.rootswebforesightbooks.ancestrycom/seic/reviews.htm Reviews of ''Smallarms Of The East India Company 1600-1856'' by D.F. Harding, published 1999 in four volumes]. Also [http://www.foresightbooks.com/thindex.php ''An Introduction to East India Company Smallarms c1775-1851''] by D F Harding, published in 2013. All five books are available at the British Library.</readref> such as the Indian Pattern Musket.<ref>[http:/INDIA/2010barry-07lewis.com/musket/1278311194 postIndia Pattern Musket] is about men who were barry-lewis.com</ref> ==Occupations===== Carnatic Ordnance Artificers===In June 1821, the Governor in Council authorised the formation of a corps of Carnatic Ordnance artificersArtificers, including to be recruited from the training these men receivedsons of Europeans born in India and to be enlisted as European soldiers. They were to come from the Orphan Asylum, the fort school, and from other charitable institutions. One of the reasons for the establishment was the desirability of providing suitable employment for a portion of the Eurasian (mixed race) population.<ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=URK-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA194 Page 194 ''The East India Company’s Arsenals & Manufactories''] by Brigadier-General H. A. Young, Director of Ordnance Factories in India 1917-1920 Google Books</ref> The Corps was attached to the Gun Carriage Manufactory<ref>[http://madrasmusings.com/Vol%2020%20No%2012/the-anglo-indians-of-madras.html "The Anglo-Indians of Madras"] from Madras Musings dated October 1-15, 2010. Retrieved 10 November 2014</ref> An artificer, or artifier, has the general meaning of craftsman, and the meanings also include ‘A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory’ and 'A member of the military who specializes in manufacturing and repairing weapon systems' (Carnatic is a term for South India, and refers to Madras Presidency) ===Civil Chief Master Armourer===They appear to be persons who went around inspecting weapons in places which held them, such as police stations and prisons. ‪  ==Stud farms=====Pusa===Pusa is located in Bihar, previously part of the Bengal Presidency, and is now an Agricultural Research Institute.<ref> [http://www.iari.res.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=456&Itemid=1247 IARI Regional Station, Pusa (Bihar)] iari.res.in</ref><br>Article: "The Origin of "the Pusa Experiment" : The East India Company and Horse-Breeding in Bengal, 1793-1808" by Garry John Adler. ''Bengal Past & Present'', 98 (1979), 10-32. Publisher: Calcutta Historical Society.  ==Notes=Other studs===*In 1835 there was a stud at Buxar, now Bihar, then part of the Bengal Presidency.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/fiveyearsinindiavol1/Five_Years_in_India_Vol_1#page/n69/mode/2up Page 41] ''Five Years in India: Comprising a Narrative of Travels in the Presidency of Bengal, a Visit to the Court of Runjeet Sing, Residence in the Himalayah Mountains, an Account of the Late Expedition to Cabul and Affghanistan, Voyage Down the Indus, and Journey Overland to England, Volume I'' by Henry Edward Fane 1842 Archive.org<references /ref>*The Madras Presidency stud farm at Ganjam is described in the article "A government stud farm 1798-1811 in the days of the Company Bahadur" by R A Addington ''Cavalry Journal'' Issue No 18, 1928, published London. This article is available online, see below.

*[httphttps://www.enfieldjstor.org/stable/26061807 "Equipping Leviathan: Ordnance Factories of British India, 1859–1913"] by Kaushik Roy ''War in History'' Vol. 10, No. 4 (November 2003), pp. 398-stuff423 (26 pages) jstor.comorg. Register with jstor.org, and read online for free (limits apply), or you may be able to log-in through your Library.:[https:/regimentals/riflesweb.archive.org/enfield_queueweb/Queue_India20220616074758/https://insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/IJHS/Vol44_3_4_KRoy.htm Enfield Rifles from Ishaporepdf "Technology Transfer And The Evolution Of Ordnance Establishment In British-India: 1639-1856"] from Enfieldby Kaushik Roy ''Indian Journal of History of Science'', 44.3 (2009) pp. 411-Stuff433, Indian National Science Academy Journals archived webpage.com